Guettarda crispiflora Vahl

Guettarda crispiflora Vahl, Kcloj;. 1: ,(). 1796
Mallhiola crispiflora Kuntzc, Rev. Gcii. 2X8. 1891.
A shrub or small tree, the branchlets stout, compressed, inimiUly sericeous, with very short internodes; stipules ovate, 1-2 cm. long, acute or acuminate, thin, brown, setose-pilose at the base and along the costa with fulvous appressed hairs; leaves opposite, the slender or stout petioles 1-2.5 cm. long, setose-pilose; leaf-blades ovate to broadly oval, 9-12 cm. long, 4.5-7 cm. wide, rounded or obtuse at the ape. and abruptly short-acuminate, or sometimes long-acuminate, broadly rounded at the base, chartaceous, green above, short-pilose, especially along the nerves, or glabrate, the venation prominent, paler beneath, minutely apjiressed-pilose, the venation prominent, the lateral nerves slender, 8-11 on each side, arcuate, parallel, the intermediate veins straight, transverse, incons])icuous, reticulate, the margin plane; peduncles stout, 1-1.7 cm. long, minutely sericeous, the cymes bifurcate, the branches 1-3 cm. long, 4-11flowcred, the flowers sessile, the bractlets minute; calyx and hypanthium 2.5-3 mm. long, densely fulvous-.sericeous, the calyx shallowly 5-dentate; corolla white or tinged with rose, the stout tube 12-15 mm. long, densely retrorse-pilose with short fulvous hairs, the 5 lobes 3 mm. long, lacerate-undulate; fruit acutely tetragonous, 5-7 mm. long, 3.5-4 mm. thick, 4-celled.
TvFK i.ocAi.iTv: Montserrat.
Distribution: In forest, Lesser Antilles and Trinidad; mountain forests of Costa Rica.

Guettarda crispiflora là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Thiến thảo. Loài này được Vahl mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1797.